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...Iran has previously backed the broad Shi'ite-Kurdish alliance that brought al-Maliki to power, and is clearly pressing for another friendly, Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad. Allawi is fiercely antagonistic toward Tehran, and his bloc was strongly backed by Sunni Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, which are leery of Iranian influence in Arab lands. (Those governments have been standoffish toward al-Maliki.) (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...
...these overachieving zooites? According to a 2008 survey of 11,000 Galaxy Zoo users, 80% are men and two-thirds live in the U.S. or U.K. They are primarily people who want to "contribute to original scientific research," says Jordan Raddick, education director of the Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science at Johns Hopkins University, who helped conduct the survey. For some Galaxy Zoo volunteers, the draw is somewhat more philosophical. Contemplating a galaxy that exists at an almost unimaginable distance, in both space and time, and contributing a bit of knowledge about it can be humbling and satisfying...
According to Jordan, the solution was not necessarily to bless all couples, but to reconsider the institution of marriage...
...Jordan concluded his talk by saying that there remains a lot of debate in the Christian community, both between denominations and individuals, on issues of same-sex marriage and sexual ethics in general...
...first full general election, in 2006. He then went into something of a funk. Even though he was an elected member of parliament, he showed no interest in playing a constructive role in opposition. Indeed, he was rarely in Baghdad at all, spending most of his time in Jordan and other Arab states. When I asked him about this in 2007, he cited concerns about his security in Baghdad - but plenty of other Iraqi leaders, not to speak of ordinary citizens, were braving death threats...